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Jordan Gerblick

Survival horror clatters into soccer royalty as "Silent Hill mixed with FIFA 98" offers up a Steam Next Fest demo that I could never have imagined would work this well

FEAR FA 98.

I'm in control of someone that looks a lot like Hannibal Lecter. I'm on a soccer field with a pentagram in the middle. A statue fountain is urinating blood. There's a very large monster with a crucifix on his head. I can hear a demonic voice telling me to "go fuck" myself. I just kicked a decapitated head into the net. I'm not in a melatonin-induced fever dream, although I'm bound to have one after this. I'm playing a Steam Next Fest demo I downloaded at work, and I'm thinking out loud, "what the hell is going on?"

The game's called FEAR FA 98, a play on FIFA 98, and it's described by developer Celery Emblem as "Silent Hill mixed with FIFA 98." Given the whole demonic theme, I'd say it's more like Evil Dead meets FIFA 98, but there is lots of rain and fog, so I'll let that little discrepancy slide.

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